Record ID: YORYM-BF8015
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy cosmetic implement of Roman date, c.AD 200 - 410. The implement comprises a circular sectioned shaft which flattens and expands into a circular scoop terminal at one end. The opposite end terminates in a worn break. The shaft is decorated with reel and spool moulding. The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The implement is 28.1mm long, 5.1mm wide, 3.7mm thick and weighs 1.5g. Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy, p.61, fig.65 where they are described as objects used to extract cosmetics from flasks, boxes and small pots. These examples are da…
Created on: Monday 8th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: BUC-4F4AE9
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy, Post Medieval, cosmetic spoon, AD 1500-1800. The object comprises part of the handle and terminal of the cosmetic spoon. The handle is twisted for approximately half its length from the break towards the terminal. The rest of the shank length is untwisted and terminates in a small oval scoop that has been bent back on itself forming a loop. The break at the opposite end has a triangular profile characteristic of cutting shears suggesting the object has been deliberately cut up, probably for scrap. While cosmetic spoons are used from the Roman period, the p…
Created on: Monday 29th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 29th May 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-929D71
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy cosmetic implement of Roman date, c.AD 200 - 410. The implement comprises a circular sectioned shaft which tapers slightly before expanding into a scoop terminal at one end. The opposite end terminates in a worn break. The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The implement is 27.5mm long, 4.6mm wide, 3.1mm thick and weighs 1.3g. Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy, p.60, fig.64 where they are described as objects used to extract cosmetics from flasks, boxes and small pots. These examples are dated to the late Roman period. A similar though comp…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2023
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Record ID: DUR-B81AA1
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy probable Roman cosmetic spoon or ligula. The object consists of a round shaft (diameter: 4.27mm) with rounded terminus. The head is flat-backed with a scooped end with three incised grooves below terminated by a circumferential double groove.  dimensions: Length: 93.16 mm; Thickness: 7.58 mm; Weight: 13.96 g. Roman cosmetic spoons, or ligula, are thought to have been used for extracting unguents from vessels. Crummy (1983, p60-1) illustrates an number of examples, noting that they were  "…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-FE6F19
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy cosmetic implement of Roman date, c.AD 200 - 410. The implement is a comprises a circular sectioned shaft which expands into a scoop terminal at one end. The opposite end opens to form an attachment loop. A wide double banded collar is present at the junction of the shaft and loop. The loop is at right angles to the scoop. The metal has a dark grey/green patina and is worn. The implement is 42.8mm long, 5.4mm wide, 2.3mm thick and weighs 2.7g. Similar examples are illustrated in Crummy, p.60, fig.64 where they are described as objects used to extract cosmeti…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2023
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Record ID: DENO-FF835B
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy cosmetic or toiletry spoon of Roman date (c. AD 43 - 410). The object comprises of the damaged, very shallow bowl and the stub of a rectangular sectioned stem set at 90 degrees to the bowl. Only 6 mm of the stem remains. The bowl is 11 mm long and 9 mm wide in current state, it is badly chipped with pieces missing from the edge. It is possible this object formed part of a toilet article. Crummy, N. (1995: 59) notes: “Those with a small cupped scoop have been described as ear picks or scoops (Hawkes and Hull 1947, 334;Neal and Butch…
Created on: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-54B701
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy cosmetic or toiletry spoon of uncertain date, 75.5mm in length and made from a twisted strip of metal, one side of which has three ridges running along it, the other being curved. This provides a decorative effect to the twisted handle. At one end there is a flat terminal, possibly an old break, and the other end has a pointed oval scoop, 9mm wide and 19mm in length. The object is bent and has a white metal coating.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E6DE53
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably Roman sheet copper alloy cosmetic spoon. A suspension hole lies just below the rounded top of the stem. The edges of the lower part of the stem have been hammered into a low ridge and the shallow bowl is oval or leaf-shaped. Weight 2.4g. Length 73.7mm. Width at bowl 9.9mm, of stem 3.5 - 4mm. No close parallel noted, perhaps mid 1st - 4th century. Field RG4
Created on: Saturday 5th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NARC-2C0323
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy Cosmetic Article of Roman date (AD 43-410). The object is composed of an upper circular loop with an integral circular shaft, which expands into a leaf shaped body which terminates at its lover end with a rounded edge. The object is decorated with two pairs of three circumferential incised lines, one group below the loop and the second in the centre of the shaft. The leaf shaped body is decorated with an incised saltire cross. The lower rounded edge has five short, incised lines along the lower edge. Length: 48.40mm, Width: 5.93mm, Thickness: 1.46mm, Diam…
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8451E1
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment probably of a Roman copper alloy cosmetic spoon-probe, a short length of oval-sectioned shank with a non-recent break and an oval, gently dished spoon bowl. Cf. Crummy 1983, 60-1, nos. 1926-1932. On the reverse of the bowl a very low moulding, 4.5mm long and wide with a rounded terminal, continues the line of the shank. Overall length 31mm. Bowl 22 x 11.5mm. Shank width and thickness 2.1 and 1.4mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-C2042C
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy cosmetic spoon with a small circular scoop and a leaf-shaped (badly bent) stem. The proximal end, which probably included a suspension loop, is missing due to an ancient break. On one face of the stem, opposite that on which the scoop is dished, finely engraved lines follow the edges and near the break there is a punched ring-and-dot. The form is close to that of NMS-455F25, a larger and complete example recovered from the same field. Extant straightened length 40mm. Width 5mm. Mid 1st - mid 2nd century.
Created on: Saturday 24th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 23rd August 2021
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Record ID: SUR-75B3AB
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy cosmetic or toiletry spoon of uncertain date, 119mm in length and made from a twisted strip of flat-sectioned metal. At one end there is an incomplete spatula and the other end has an oval scoop. The object is bent in several places and has a dark green patina.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-908F41
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bowl and a short length of the stem of a copper-alloy cosmetic spoon of unknown date. The bowl is sub-ovoid and fairly shallow. The stem is oval in cross-section and expands in thickness from the junction with the bowl to the break (a distance of about twelve millimetres) eventually becoming thicker than it is wide. The break is not recent. The bowl is angled downwards at an angle of approximately thirty degrees when the spoon is held horizontally. Length: 27.7mm. Width (bowl): 11.5mm (stem at break). 2.5mm. Thickness (depth of bowl): 2.4mm (stem at break): 4.2mm. Weight: 1.2g
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2020
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A15057
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete but badly distorted Roman copper alloy cosmetic spoon. At one end the round-sectioned stem ends in a point and before the other it narrows slightly to a probably round, flat bowl or scoop which has lost parts of its edges. Length c.115mm. Diameter of stem 1.8mm. Diameter and thickness of bowl 4.6 and 1.8mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Monday 29th June 2020
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-98AC55
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy cosmetic spoon with one end of the round-section stem broken fairly recently.The stem narrows slightly to the round, flat bowl or scoop. Extant length 33.5mm. Diameter of stem 2.2mm. Diameter and thickness of bowl 4.6 and 1.8mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Sunday 16th February 2020
Last updated: Sunday 16th February 2020
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Record ID: WMID-8E21FA
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete white metal coated copper-alloy cosmetic or toiletry spoon of uncertain date, likely Roman or Medieval to Post Medieval (43 AD - 1800 AD). The object comprises a handled formed from flat strip of copper-alloy which has a twisted spiral prior to the spoon bowl. The bowl is long and oval, being formed by hammering. The handle terminates in a worn break and it is uncertain how close it remains to its' original length. The spoon has been bent in half, It measures 62.3 mm long, 22.3 mm wide and 4.0 mm thick. It weighs 6.9 g. The spoon is a dark green, with an uneven …
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2019
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Record ID: DEV-468E28
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy cosmetic scoop dating to the post-medieval period, c. AD 1500-1750. The object is formed of a cylindrical shank, which curves to a flattened end, where a break has occurred around what appears to have been a central void. The scoop (at the other end) is shallow and curving, with relatively flattened outer perimeter. There are two grooves in the under surface, approximately 16mm from the scoop and 10mm apart from one another. A large number of examples have been recorded on the database, including SUSS-9FEA45 and IOW-833439. The consensus is that these …
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-A0B48B
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possibly Roman (AD 43-410) twisted copper-alloy probable handle, perhaps from a cosmetic spoon. It is decorated with a horizontal chevron-type decoration on one side only, close to the break. It measures 52.79mm in length, is 3.05mm thick and weighs 2.56g.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 28th November 2019
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Record ID: KENT-A7EFB6
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete white metal coated copper-alloy cosmetic or toiletry spoon of uncertain date, likely Roman or Medieval to Post Medieval (43 AD - 1800 AD). Description: The object comprises a handled formed from flat strip of copper-alloy which has a twisted spiral prior to the spoon bowl. The bowl is long and ovate, being formed by hammering. The handle terminates in a worn break and it is uncertain how close it remains to its' original length. The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. Measurements: 68.65mm long, 9.05mm wide, 3.1mm thick and weighs 2.53g. Discussions: These…
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2017
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Record ID: SUSS-FD97A6
Object type: COSMETIC SPOON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy cosmetic scoop or spoon, dating from the post-Medieval period (c.1500-1700). The object comprises a rod, the top of which has been flattened and pierced to create a now-broken pivot point. The bottom of the rod has been formed into an oval scoop or spoon. The piece is heavily corroded and is bent approximately 25mm below the top. at a 70 degree angle. It is a reddish brown in colour. PAS record SF7885 is a close parallel.
Created on: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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